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[[Cosmas Indicopleustes]]<nowiki>*</nowiki>
[[Cosmas Indicopleustes]]<nowiki>*</nowiki> (547 A.D.)


[[Skariphos]]
[[Skariphos]] (about 555 A.D.)
[[Malalas]]*


[[John of Ephesus]]
[[Malalas]]* (about 570-580 A.D.)


[[John of Biclar]]<nowiki>*</nowiki>
[[John of Ephesus]] (about 580 A.D.)


[[Ecclesiastical Hierarchy in Africa]]
[[John of Biclar]]<nowiki>*</nowiki> (born 540 A.D.)
 
[[Ecclesiastical Hierarchy in Africa]] (650-700 A.D.)


[[Coptic Documents (ca 650-700)]]
[[Coptic Documents (ca 650-700)]]


[[Thronos Alexandrinos]]
[[Thronos Alexandrinos]] (675-703 A.D.)


[[John of Nikiou]]
[[John of Nikiou]] (686 A.D.)


[[Abba Mina]]
[[Abba Mina]] (about 700 A.D.)


[[Jacob of Edessa]]
[[Jacob of Edessa]] (d. 708 A.D.)


[[John the Deacon]]
[[John the Deacon]] (about 770 A.D.)


[[Arab Nicene Canons]]
[[Arab Nicene Canons]] (700-800 A.D.)


[[al-Waqidi]]<nowiki>*</nowiki>
[[al-Waqidi]]<nowiki>*</nowiki> (about 790 A.D.)


[[al-Fazari]]<nowiki>*</nowiki>
[[al-Fazari]]<nowiki>*</nowiki> (before 800 A.D.)


[[David of Beth Rabban]]
[[David of Beth Rabban]] (about 800 A.D.)


[[al-Khuwarezmi]]*
[[al-Khuwarezmi]]* (before 833 A.D.)


[[al-Farghani]]
[[al-Farghani]] (before 861 A.D.)


[[al-Jahiz]]
[[al-Jahiz]] (776-869 A.D.)


[[Ibn 'Abd al-Hakam]]
[[Ibn 'Abd al-Hakam]] (d. 871 A.D.)


[[Eldad Ha-Dani]]
[[Eldad Ha-Dani]] (about 883 A.D.)


[[Ibn Qutayba ad-Dinawari]]
[[Ibn Qutayba ad-Dinawari]] (about 800 A.D.)


[[Ibn al-Khordadhbeh]]
[[Ibn al-Khordadhbeh]] (about 885 A.D.)


[[al-Ya'qubi]]
[[al-Ya'qubi]] (wrote 872-891 A.D.)


[[al-Baladhuri]]
[[al-Baladhuri]]

Revision as of 14:34, 1 March 2015

Father Giovanni Vantini FSCJ's Oriental Sources Concerning Nubia, published as a field-manual for archaeologists of medieval Nubia, has long been a standard reference guide in Nubian studies. With the permission of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Missionari Comboniani del Cuore di Gesu, we present excerpts from this monumental collection. Each author included in Vantini's source-book will be added to the list below as it becomes available for this source reader.

Note that Vantini’s original corrigenda and addenda to these texts have been incorporated along with further standardisation of spellings and diacritics. The use of brackets have been standardised so that round brackets are used for translations and square brackets include additional information. Scholars of Nubian studies are aware of the acute need to revisit the editions and translations of the literary sources in Vantini's collection, and are invited to use the Medieval Nubia wiki as a forum for discussing these issues. Some mistakes may still remain and notifications of such to the administrators of the website are most welcome.

The entries already including bibliographic updates and remarks are marked with an asterisk.


Preface by the Editors

Introduction

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations


The Sources:

Cosmas Indicopleustes* (547 A.D.)

Skariphos (about 555 A.D.)

Malalas* (about 570-580 A.D.)

John of Ephesus (about 580 A.D.)

John of Biclar* (born 540 A.D.)

Ecclesiastical Hierarchy in Africa (650-700 A.D.)

Coptic Documents (ca 650-700)

Thronos Alexandrinos (675-703 A.D.)

John of Nikiou (686 A.D.)

Abba Mina (about 700 A.D.)

Jacob of Edessa (d. 708 A.D.)

John the Deacon (about 770 A.D.)

Arab Nicene Canons (700-800 A.D.)

al-Waqidi* (about 790 A.D.)

al-Fazari* (before 800 A.D.)

David of Beth Rabban (about 800 A.D.)

al-Khuwarezmi* (before 833 A.D.)

al-Farghani (before 861 A.D.)

al-Jahiz (776-869 A.D.)

Ibn 'Abd al-Hakam (d. 871 A.D.)

Eldad Ha-Dani (about 883 A.D.)

Ibn Qutayba ad-Dinawari (about 800 A.D.)

Ibn al-Khordadhbeh (about 885 A.D.)

al-Ya'qubi (wrote 872-891 A.D.)

al-Baladhuri

Kitab Surat al-Ard

al-Battani

Moses Bar Kepha

Ibn Roste

Ibn al-Faqih

as-Sayrafi

Ahmad al-Kufi

at-Tabari

Abu-l-Faraj Qudama

Eutychius of Alexandria

al-Istakhri

Suhrab (Ibn Serapion)

al-Hamdani

Mahbub ibn Qustantin/Agapius

Ishaq ibn al-Husain

al-Mas'udi

Buzurg b. Sahriyar

Yusuf al-Kindi

Abu Nasr Mutahhar al-Maqdisi

Ibn Hawqal

Hudud al-'Alam

al-Muqaddasi

al-Muhallabi

Ibn Zulaq

an-Nadim

al-Balawi

The Constantinople Synaxary

"Haismavourk" The Armenian Synaxary of Ter Israel

Assaph Hebraeus

Severus (Sawirus)

Ibn Yunus

al-Miskawaih

Avicenna

al-Biruni

Nasir-i Khusraw

Ibn Butlan

Ibn Ridwan

Ibn Hazm

al-Bakri

Ibn Sa'id al-Andalusi

Ellath Kul-'Ellan

Coptic Documents of the 10th-12th Century

al-Marwazi

al-Kharaqi

az-Zamakhshari

al-Zuhri

al-Idrisi

al-Idrisi Abridged

Ibn Qalanisi

Abu Hamid al-Andalusi

Abd al-Karim as-Sam'ani

Benjamin of Tudela

Ibn Jubayr

Ibn Wasif Shah

Usama Ibn Munqidh

Kitab al-Istibsar

al-Isfahani

al-Qadi al-Fadil

Michael the Syrian

Coptic Scalae 12th-14th Century

Abu Salih the Armenian

al-Harawi

Yaqut ar-Rumi

Ibn al-Athir

al-Marrakushi

Abu Shama

al-Makin

Nasir al-Din al-Tusi

al-Qazwini

Yahya al-Intaki

Ibn Muyassar

Ibn Khallikan

Ibn Sa'id al-Maghribi

Barhebraeus

Ibn Abd az-Zahir

Ibn Wasil

Synaxarium Arabo-Jacobiticum

Synaxarium Aethiopicum

Ibn al-Ji'ani

al-Harrani

Yusuf the Egyptian

Rukn ad-Din Baybars ad-Dawadari

Ad-Dimishqi

ash-Shirazi

Abu-l-Fida'

an-Nuwayri

Safi ad-Din al-Baghdadi

al-Mufaddal

al-Edfuwi

Zayn ad-Din...al-Wardi

Adh-Dhahabi

al-'Umari

Gadla Ewostatewos Acta S.Eustathii

Ibn Battuta

Anonymous Suwar al-Aqalim

Ibn ash-Shatir

Ibn Duqmaq

Ibn al-Furat

Ibn Khaldun

al-Bakuwi

al-Qalqashandi

Maqrizi

1. al-Khitat

2. as-Suluk

3. al-Bayan

4. al-Muqaffa

5. adh dhahab al-masbuk

Siraj ad-Din... al-Wardi

at-Taghribirdi

Acta Mercuri / Gadla Marqorewos

as-Suyuti

David Reubeni

Ibn Abd as-Salam al-Manufi

Ibn Iyas

Leo Africanus

Tabaqat Dayfallah

The Fung Chronicle